Fairchild Dornier 428JET

The Fairchild Dornier 428JET was a programme to develop a 44-seat regional jet, part of the company attempt to build a family of regional jets made of the 328JET, 428JET and the 728 series, meant to compete with the Bombardier CRJ and the Embraer ERJ and E-Jets. It was announced on 19 May 1998 and was to be a stretched 328JET seating 44 instead of 34, sharing the same type rating, with assembly planned in Israel by Israel Aerospace Industries and two Pratt and Whitney Canada PW308B turbofans of 32.9 kilonewtons each. Changing market conditions made a 44-seat aircraft inferior to 50-seat ones, which cost nearly the same to buy and run but earn more, and the company cancelled the programme on 8 August 2000. At that point it had 39 firm orders, from Atlantic Coast Airlines, Skyway Airlines, Air Alps Aviation and Air One CityLiner, and 88 options.